Parents worry about their children.  It’s part of being a parent.  Around the time kids are becoming social with their friends and playing games on a console or computer, they’re going to start asking about playing online games – either through a console with an...

Subscription-based multiplayers are becoming a thing of the past.  A few holdouts still linger, but nearly every major MMO has gone free to play (F2P), marking a huge shift in the gaming market from premium play to freemium. Last month, one of the most venerable games in the MMO role...

CCP Games in Iceland has named Chinese game publisher TianCity as the exclusive publishing outlet for the popular EVE Online MMO’s upcoming mainland China release.  The partnership was announced at a press conference in Shanghai today. The latest release of EVE Online is coming in...

The term “massive multiplayer online” (MMO) has meant a lot of things since its inception in the 1990s.  Today, one genre of MMO are social games that include real-time or near-real-time play aspects into their models.  While most social games, such as Zynga’s...

On Sunday the 19th, SteelWar Online, a new space-based MMO, entered open beta.  Developer PopPace is now accepting beta players into the game for testing. The game is a robot battle MMO taking place in open space.  It’s free to play and claim to be the first in its genre of...

On Valentine’s Day, 21,879 couples took virtual marriage vows in Rift, matching nearly 44,000 players with their in-game soul mates.  Rift will now take its place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most in-game marriages in a 24 hour period. “Establishing this record...

WarpPortal has announced that the Korean and North American servers for Requiem will be merging on March 7th.  Players will benefit from several events launching once the merger is complete.  These include: Green rice cake & blue rice cake global drop event for all players. Raid...

Drew Karpyshyn, lead writer for BioWare (makers of Star Wars: The Old Republic and other MMOs), has resigned after working for the company for 12 years.  He says, in a blog post, that he’s retiring from the gaming industry to focus on writing novels and possibly screen...